Boiler compound.



UNITED STA'EEPLPATENT OFFICE.

HARRY R. YOUNG, OF OATASAUQUA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOILER COMPOUND.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, I'IARRY R. YOUNG. a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Catasauqua, county of Lehigh, and. State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and Improved Boiler Compound, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved boiler compound, the function of which is the purification of feed water, the cleansing of the boiler, and the keeping the same tree from scale.

The base of the compound, 2". 0., the prin cipal ingredient therein, is soapstone. To this base, I add a small quantity of other materials which may be varied in accordance with the analysis of the water to be purified. I find that a good all-round solution for general purposes comprises 80% powdered soap stone, 18% of some alkali, such as carbonate 0f soda, and 2% brown sugar. In some cases 2 or 21 7/0 lime may be added to good advantage. These ingredients are first mixed together in powdered form and are then mixed in hot or cold water, the wet mixture being finally fed into the feed water line of the boiler. I preferably employ about 2 lbs. of the dry mixture per 100 horse power in ten hours, the said 2 lbs. to be mixed in two or three gallons of Water and fed into the boiler twice a day. lVhen first commencing to use the compound,a slightly larger quantity may be employed say about 2%; lbs per 100 horse power in ten hours.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 29, 1908.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

Serial No. 450,909.

This larger amount may be employed every day for say, the first thirty days. and thereafter the first mentioned quantity will be found to be sufficient.

I find that a mixture of this character will purify the water, clean all. the scale out of the boiler, and will keep the boiler clean.

Instead or, or as well as. using the compound in the feed water in the manner above mentioned, I may. if desired, filter the water through a bed of soapstone. If the soapstone is used as a filter bed, it will preferably be employed in the rock form rather than powdered.

lVhat I claim is:

1. A boiler compound stone and sugar.

2. A boiler compound stone, an alkali, and. sugar.

3. A boiler compound comprising powdered soap stone, carbonate of soda, and sugar.

4. A boiler compound comprising a comparatively large quantity of powdered soap stone, a comparatively small quantity of an alkali, and a much smaller quantity of brown sugar.

A boiler compound comprising about 80% of powdered soapstone, about l8% carbonate of soda, and about 2% brown sugar.

HARRY R. YOUNG.

comprising soap comprising soap lVitnesses WILLIAM J lvLlCBRTDE, FRANK SAIRLAY. 

